The Bank of England said Monday it will implement additional measures “to support an orderly end” to its emergency bond-buying plans announced last month, aimed at preventing a financial crisis Read more
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Bank of England announces additional support measures as emergency bond-buying plan winds down
The Bank of England said Monday it will increase the size of its daily gilt purchases and implement additional measures “to support an orderly end” to its emergency bond-buying plans Read more
Opinion: Central banks want to fight inflation, but they still need to keep the financial system functioning. The two goals may be conflicting.
After two years of quantitative easing, central banks have begun to shrink their balance sheets, and liquidity seems to have vanished in the space of just a few months—revealing acute Read more
Fed may need to pivot by early November, when ‘something breaks’: Scott Minerd
With multiple cracks emerging in global financial markets, the Federal Reserve may be forced to end its aggressive rate hikes “when something breaks” and to pivot by the end of Read more
Bank of England official says $1 trillion in pension fund investments could’ve been wiped out without intervention
A top Bank of England official confirmed for the first time that worries that a popular pension fund investment would collapse prompted the intervention by the central bank to buy Read more
A Bear Stearns moment awaits if actions like the Bank of England intervention don’t calm markets, BofA analysts say
The Bank of England may have stabilized the U.K. bond market by aggressive purchases of longer-dated securities a week ago, but it, and other central banks, aren’t out of the Read more
Opinion: The Fed must act tough now to restore the credibility that it lost in a moment of weakness
CAMBRIDGE, England (Project Syndicate)—Financial markets’ reaction to the Federal Reserve’s latest policy move was reminiscent more of developing countries than of the world’s most powerful economy. Given that the Fed Read more
Opinion: Stock markets will drop another 40% as a severe stagflationary debt crisis hits an overleveraged global economy
NEW YORK (Project Syndicate)—For a year now, I have argued that the increase in inflation would be persistent, that its causes include not only bad policies but also negative supply shocks, and that central Read more
Treasury yields rebound as inflation concerns resurface
Bond yields rose on Thursday as the impact of Bank of England intervention faded and data from Germany pointed to sustained central bank rate rises to tackle inflation. What’s happening Read more
Dow futures down 250 points as Bank of England intervention bounce fades
U.S. stock futures fell back on Thursday as the positive impact on bond markets from the Bank of England’s intervention began to fade and yields again moved higher. How are Read more